Re: [Qemu-devel] 128Kb bios size and older machines?

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 15:31 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > I'm not sure why the BIOS size is relevant to migration anyway, Xen
> > doesn't load a new BIOS on the target host, the BIOS image is part of
> > the migrated RAM.
> 
> The memory layout is different with a larger bios as qemu makes the
> virtual flash as big as the bios image is.  The different memory layout
> in turn makes live migration fail.

OK. Xen doesn't emulate flash so it doesn't have this issue.

Ian.